Is Islam a drug resistant Bacteria?

Lewis Palme found this article on drug resistant super bacteria cultures (biofilm) and added a few comments and comparisons to and about Islam. I am running this with his permission. Thank you Lewis.
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There was an article published in the March 23, 2007, edition of the Baltimore Sun by Chris Emery about medical research into “biofilms.” The story was also picked up by the Los Angeles Times on April 4. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/health/bal-hs.biofilm23mar23,0,4256495.story
One well-known biofilm is called plaque by dentists, a mixture of microorganisms, including bacteria, protozoa and algae suspended in a slimy glue called polysaccharide that holds them together and binds them to surfaces. Yuck ! What is scary, however, is that when enough of them get together, they undergo metabolic changes that make them more dangerous than they are individually.

As I read the article, I was struck by how much this new medical phenomenon resembles the way the Muslim community supports and protects Islamic terrorism. As I am not a scientist, I will provide an outline below of what I am getting at, and hopefully someone more qualified will flesh out this thesis. Lewis Palme
1. Bacteria can band together into sheets called biofilms. When they do, they alter their behavior. They build complex communities, establish lines of communication and coordinate their actions. They become 50 to 500 times more resistant.
This reminds me of the “no go zones” cropping up in France, England, and Sweden.
2. Biofilms coat everything from Alpine river rocks to neglected teeth. Every year they cause billions of dollars of damage.
This reminds me of the rioting that emerged “spontaneously??” months after the Danish cartoons were published where businesses and embassy buildings were burned and trashed, and innocent people were killed.
3. Like soldiers hiding in a castle, the bacteria inside the film are protected from drugs designed to kill them. The [good] cells are also starved for nutrients.
This reminds me of the Hezbollah militants in last summer’s fighting with Israel who hid within populated areas launching missiles at random targets in Israel. The use of civilians as shields prevented Israel from effectively targeting Hezbollah. It was the civilians who suffered the most.
4. Stress puts biofilm bacteria on the defensive, causing them to release caustic acids and proteins. They start freaking out. They turn on stress response genes that make them attack the antibiotic.
This reminds me of CAIR filing lawsuits at any organization that voices any criticism of their antics. Now the attacks are even targeting innocent John Does who are merely “reporting suspicious behavior.”

Wahhabis endangering Serbia

By Boba Borojevic (Serbianna )
April 4, 2007

Four members of an ultraconservative Muslim sect, known as Wahhabis, have been arrested following a raid on a mountain terrorist training camp in the Rashka region of south-western Serbia on March 18. A large supply of weapons, ammunition, hand grenades, facemasks and plastic explosive with detonators was also discovered at a cave at Ninaja Mountain, 30 kilometres from Novi Pazar.

A judge ordered the four to be detained for 30 days to allow police and intelligence officials to investigate their alleged activities at the training site. Dragan Jocic, the Serbian interior affairs minister, said: “We are determined to prevent any form of violence and terrorism. We are continuing to comb the terrain and search for other members of the group.”

Wahhabism, a new threat to the Serbian society at large
Srdja Trifkvic, an expert on this subject is the author of two books on Islam, “ Defeating Jihad” and “The Sword of the Prophet.” He cautions that Wahhabi terrorism is by no means the only form of jihad that threatens the rest of the world:

Jihad is an integral Islamic concept, built into its basic tenets and common to all Islamic activists, regardless of whether they regard themselves as followers of Wahhabism or not. Jihad, the holy war, is inseparable from the mainstream teaching of orthodox Islam from the earliest days of Muhammad’s career until our own time. It is therefore not an exclusive province of Wahhabi teaching and practice.

Let it be noted that people who are “Wahhabists” do not use that term to describe themselves. The followers of Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahab, the Saudi theologian and Islamic thinker who lived around 1703 to1792, usually describe themselves as “Unitarians,” or else as “Salafis,” meaning followers of pious forefathers – although not all Salafis are necessarily Wahhabists.

Origins and teaching of Wahhabism

It is almost three centuries since Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab was born, but his legacy is alive and well. Wahhab was a zealous Muslim revivalist (b. 1703) who lived in the period of the Ottoman Empire’s early decline. He considered that Islam in general, and Arabia in particular, needed to be spiritually and literally purified and returned to the true tenets of the faith. From the Sufis he took the concept of a fraternal religious order, but rejected initiation rituals and music in any form. He also condemned the decorations of mosques and sinful frivolities such as smoking tobacco. He gave rise to a movement that sees itself as the guardian of “true” Islamic values. His ideas were espoused in the Book of Unity, which gave rise to the name of the movement, al-Muwahhidun, or Unitarians.

By the middle of the eighteenth century, Wahhab found a politically powerful backer for his religious cause. In 1744 he struck a partnership with Muhammad ibn-Saud, the leader of a powerful clan in central Arabia, and moved to his “capital,” the settlement of ad-Dir’yah (Riyadh). Since that time the fortunes of the Wahhabis and the Ibn Saud family have been intertwined. Under Ibn-Saud’s successor, Abdul-Aziz, the Wahhabis struck out of their desert base at Najd with fury unseen in a millennium. In what looked for a while like the repetition of Muhammad’s and the early Caliphs’ phenomenal success a thousand years earlier, they temporarily captured Mecca and Medina and marched into Mesopotamia, forcing the Ottoman governor to negotiate humiliating terms, and invaded Syria. This was an unacceptable challenge to the Sultan, the heir to the caliphate and “protector of the holy places.” In 1818 the Turks broke the first Wahhabi state.

Accused of blasphemy, an 11 year old boy risks the death penalty

I wonder what they would charge me with? This is probably more of a stunt to stop Easter celebration’s and keep the declining Christian population in its place but the danger is real. Allah’s brave warriors are quick to attack the weak and innocent it is fighting real warriors they fear most.

04/04/2007 PAKISTAN
Toba Tek Singh (AsiaNews) – Among those “guilty of blasphemy” is 11 year old Daniel and the Punjab police are searching the entire province for him. The group of five is accused of disrespecting Mohammad and of having desecrated pieces of paper bearing the prophets name.

One of the five, Salamat Masih, has been arrested while other four are at large. The will all be tried under article 295 C of Pakistan’s Penal Code, the infamous blasphemy law, which provide life imprisonment and death sentence respectively for situations such as these.

Fr Bonnie Mendes a priest of Toba Tek Singh told AsiaNews that “the Christians had done nothing. It is a totally fabricated case against innocent Christians”. Fr bonnie further added that “the situation in the area is tense and people are scared although local police claim the situation is control”. Meaning they think they will arrest the others soon.

Shahbaz Bhatti, chairman All Pakistan Minorities Alliance had strongly condemned the blasphemy charges against five Christians. He urged the government to provide full protection to Christians in TTS and demanded for a judicial inquiry of the incident. Talking to AsiaNews he said “there is only one solution to stop the misuse of this law and that is total repeal of the law. True but it will never happen. Procedural changes are just paper work and bring no relief to poor people who are still being trapped by extremists just because of this law”.

Fr Mendes explained that it all boils down to a quarrel between families. Local Muslims were offended by the behaviour of the five Christians and during a procession agreed to report them. Not content, they also tried to attack the five during a march. The five saved themselves by running away, but one of the Christians present– Ratan Masih, disabled – did not succeed in fleeing far and was savagely beaten. He is now in hospital. I bet they are proud of themselves.